I really like the possession angle, and think it would be a refreshing spin on the "sith master" archetype. I'm interested in seeing how big of a pushover the average Knight of Ren is, and how easy Rey starts carving through them relative to how fast she becomes perfect at doing things she shouldn't be able to do. SEE: Out "Millenium Falconing" Han, instant JedMaster ForcePersuasion ability on 2nd ever try with a violently opposed enemy on a blatantly overt suggestion infinitely contrary to the subject's personality, ability to best a dark Jedi with years of training from Luke Skywalker and some amount of training from an obvious Sith Lord, Besting of Pro Tie Fighter Pilots while flying the Milennium Falcon, a CUSTOM freighter with a nonstandard cockpit layout and tons of modifications on how it operates, when she is only ever established as using flight simulators and never a real flying situation... Take your pick. okay, endrant. Let's just say I'm already sick of MUH STRONG WOMYN Rey already.

I concur. Haven't had a chance to give JJones the once over yet, but it looks good. And the whole David Tennant villain role had me a little excited even if he IS a little over-the-top-if-not-a-little-mind-rapey. I'm actually STILL missing out on DD due to my aversion to horribly acted CW style tv shows for the DC heroes thus far. It just seems like cheap exploitation of good comic material (I'm looking at you, Supergirl and Flash), with poorly acted roles, subpar special effects budgets, and terribly soap opera plotlines and overly contrived "new spins" on what was a perfectly good canon plot. Alas, its the problem most film adaptations suffer from: trying to be "different in a new way", in a very special snowflake fashion.

In Flash's defense, it's gotten a LOT better in terms of plot and SFX budget and acting skill. But it's still not at a point where I can get through an episode without a groan or a headshake or two. I WANT to like these things. But my common sense knows better.

Dude rd95... There's a growing list. But I like the sound of it already. I think we should have a movie recommendation/critique thread up here sometime. I'd like to see why I should get into new genres and broaden my spectrum.

Forcible possession? That sounds hella Sith. I'd dig it.

New big boss: Kysnoke Ren. Also now with 100% more mindwipe/subjugation/death of the boy who could have been the next Luke Skywalker.

ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN-SAH!

Whoa. Looking at the title of this thread I burst out laughing. But after reading the article I'm impressed with how well that would fit in. I feel like SUDDENLY A NEW SITH LORD OUT OF NOWHERE is a really tart way to get a new villain. And the fact that RotJ gave off the impression that the dark side of the force being routed only makes it more cringy if they just have them crawl out of the woodwork without a good explanation. It's just as bad as the "OH YOU EVADED ORDER 66 AND SURVIVED THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE EMPIRICAL RULE TOO? AND YOU ALSO CONVENIENTLY POP OUT IN FRINGE LORE WITHOUT HAVING BEEN INVOLVED IN THE REBELLION AND THE BATTLE OF ENDOR/HOTH/YAVIN4? OH WELL SO HAVE I! THERE ARE ACTUALLY 4-500 JEDI JUST CHILLING ALL OVER THE PLACE!"

I know its a very appetizing thought for a writer authoring lore on the fringe, but it still gets me every time. cough AHSOKA cough

...Sometimes I wish our voting system was more of "Not that person, Not THAT person" checkbox system. Because I'd be checking EVERY damn box. I haven't seen a single candidate I thought would actually do America an iota of good in about 3 elections. And it's getting worse and worse.

I'm lurking this thread and I'm honestly stunned rd95 hasn't been all over this thread yet. He is a western and spaghetti fanatic of grand proportions. I'm no connoisseur, but I really loved The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Honestly the whole series of movies were good, but I really liked the whole idea of a movie casted solely on the character archetypes. I've seen the same concept used in more recent films and really liked the nod. I'm pressing the memory to find what other movies have used this paradigm, but I find it to be a staple in a lot of the Spaghetti Westerns I've seen. Django Unchained followed a bit of this and I honestly loved it a lot more than the general reviews did.

That made me DWOOOOOAAAUUUUH.

Fite me irl m8. Winter Soldier was better than Avengers 2, Iron Man 1&2, Cap 1, and all of the Thor Movies. How can you not love it? They finally started making Cap what he was supposed to be from the start. More showcasing of combat ability and technique, more speeches, and less propoganda poster boy scenes. Cap's best fights are all from that movie, and so are most of his best quotes.

More like tongue in cheek because I firmly believe there's merit behind it. I mean, hasn't that been China's takeover plan for the last 4 decades alreadu? Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald's just want a piece of the pie. It's a pretty real concern to people who are a lot smarter about global economics than I am. The buying and trading of debt is ironically lucrative.

Lol I was totally on board until he said he liked Cap 1 more than Cap 2. He and I need to step out the side door and trade blows until we both realize we just love Cap in everything and become lifelong bros.

Amazon wishes to add new entries into their stock. They'd like to diversify their properties into new real estate: like owning YOUUUUUU...

Yep. It really tugged the heartstrings in a way you'd never have thought possible after how he made a joke of everything at the start.

I love me some DP & Cable. He's the straight man with the occasional snarky observation. He's the Ying to Wade's Wang--er, Yang. I highly recommend getting more of the issues. The overarching plots weren't even bad, and that tends to be the weakpoint of even pretty good serial comics.

I wanna see more knowledge ywing bombs in VIII... I agree. They cared alot about it making sense. Perhaps more than the new writers did....

HEY! I'm not weak! I can bench at least 140!

Okay fine. Yeah I'm a noodlearms. I'll go back to my corner now.

Agreed. Taken at face value they were still not bad, albeit totally different in tone. The real problem was the precedent it set... and which road it inevitably started going down... Even nowadays you can get a randomly REALLY good DP comic. But it's not in the majority right now. I still highly recommend. It's beating the pants off of anything coming out of X-Men right now, and he's technically part of that collective.

Hah! I already had my rebellious phase. Should've asked me 2 years ago... I actually go out of my house and do things nowadays. But for real, looking at it scientifically, it's just a question of one thing or another, and how long. Be it plastics in our oceans keeping phytoplankton from supporting the global aquatic ecosystem by reducing ultraviolet absorbable surface area on the oceans, or the carbon dioxide ratio suffocating sustainable life on Earth due to dwindling tree counts, or some intern tripping over the rug and accidentally palmslapping the giant red button with a nuclear skull on it and blowing up the whole planet... it's inevitable. Even the sun's only got a few more millennia of juice left. And we know that orbits and habitable sunlight levels are going to go bad long before that. It's just a big fat reminder to appreciate what we have in life while we have it. Everything is temporary. Make sure you take stock of what really matters before we all go back to being spacedust. BUT IN SHORT...

Just remember: when your doc tells you to eat veggies, brush your teeth, and FINISH YOUR GOTDANG ANTIBIOTICS YOU BETTER LISTEN.

This clarified a few things I was annoyed about seeing the movie. In particular When Leia had a ragtag band of miscreants and NO YWINGS FOR A BOMBING RUN. USING NO BOMBERS. And why the Republic wasn't actually "The Resistance". And a good bit about the sociopolitical climate of the fledgeling Repiblic... as it gets crushed about 1.5 hours into the movie as they blew up the entire New Galactic Senate offscreen without 10 seconds of commentary as to what had just happened. This movie really had wayyy too much edited down. But I'm hoping to see a much better Extended Edition someday soon. Good post!

WHY NOT ALL OF THE ABOVE?

Most endtime texts love talking about a pestilence/disease wiping out a portion of the planet as part of armageddon. I believe it's referred to as "Wormwood" in Revelations. It also mentions a "star falling" in another act. A friend of mine who reads a lot of the other folks' versions has talked about similar interpretations. I mean, wouldn't it be crazy if we got wiped out by an antibiotic-resistant common cold, or gonorrhea?! And THEN get smacked by an errant asteroid shortly after? We're screwed, hubskibros.